Name: International Women’s Day 2026: Ending Gender Violence | Vietnam Today
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International Women's Day 2026 under the theme Rights, Justice, Action for All Women and Girls marks a moment to amplify our collective determination this year.

International Women's Day 2026 focuses on dismantling the structural barriers to justice that have now extended into the digital world.

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While technology offers progress, it has also been weaponized, contributing to the rise of technology facilitated gender based violence, creating new frontiers for inequality and the infringement of personal boundaries.

So what is the Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence?

According to the United Nations Population Fund, Technology facilitated Gender based Violence, or tfgbv, is an act of violence perpetrated by one or more individuals that is committed, assisted and aggravated and amplified in part or in full by the use of information and communication technologies or digital media against a person on the basis of gender.

Since this violence has no limits or geopolitical boundaries, it has various forms Technology Facilitated gender based violence takes many forms.

Image based abuse means sharing intimate photos without consent, doxing means publishing private personal information online, gender and sexual harassment, cyber stalking online, grooming for sexual assault, hacking hate speech online impersonation and using technology to locate survivors of abuse in order to inflict further violence among many others.

When violence occurs online, the priority is not only to respond quickly, but

to respond safely and in a survivor safety centered way.

Technology facilitated gender based violence takes many forms, making it difficult for people to recognize and find solutions to support those who suffer from these issues.

For years, the United Nations Population Fund, the UN FPA has been supporting the Vietnamese government to implement a series of incidents interventions.

Let's take a close look at the following report.

This woman receives threatening messages all the time.

Everywhere she goes they keep calling me and texting threatening messages.

They said if I don't pay them they'll kidnap my child and kill me.

Hwa called 18001744, the hotline for the Angzyung House in Tanghwa.

We identify her as a survivor of gender based violence who is currently experiencing cyber attacks.

Upon arriving, I've come to realize that I was caught in a cycle of abuse.

I now understand that to free myself from that cycle, I must improve my inner strength so I can resist the violence.

Over the past four years, Engzeng House in Taiwan province has assisted 59 women.

Notably, about 15% of these cases involved technology facilitated violence.

Engzeng House in Tanghua Province is one of seven such centers nationwide supported by the United Nations Population Funds.

As a one stop service center, it provides essential, comprehensive and integrated services for women and girls experiencing or at risk of gender based violence violence.

Moreover, UNFPA provides nationwide training courses on Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence or TFGBV, for officials and service providers working on gender based violence.

For survivors of Technology facilitated gender based violence, we put safety measures in place and provide guidance on how to avoid risk factors in future technology use.

Training sessions like these are a key solution, providing the necessary conditions for us to learn, exchange experiences and identify ways to support survivors in the most effective, timely and accurate manner.

Vietnam has made notable progress in advancing gender equality and promoting women's rights.

Its commitment is reflected in strong national policies, in investments in digital transformation and increasing participation of women in public life.

Currently, to ensure a safer digital place, several recommendations are proposed.

Our reporter talked to Matt Jackson, UN FPA Representative in Vietnam, for more details.

Mr. Matt Jackson, thank you so much for taking the time for us today.

So, from UNFPA's perspective, what are the most serious risks that girls are facing on cyberspace and more particularly social media platforms?

We know that the risks facing women and girls in cyberspace are growing day by day and year by year.

85% of women have either experienced or witnessed online harassment or stalking or abuse and some of the key areas are around those issues.

So how do you evaluate Vietnam's efforts so far?

Protection of children is one area targeting the misogyny and the real drivers of violence, but

They need to be responsible and accountable and from a government perspective, ensuring that regulations are in place that can not only try and prevent and protect people but but also react rapidly to any technology facilitated gender based violence.

We know that use of social media and online platforms in Vietnam is growing very rapidly and Vietnam's digitalization agenda is a really good opportunity to make sure that the protection and the safety is part of that from the very beginning.

Vietnam in Hanoi recently hosted the International Cybercrime Convention and this is where we're seeing some real commitments from the government of Vietnam to improving safety and protection, but

also access to digitalization and online spaces.

So again, thank you so much for sharing your insights and again for having the time to talk with us.

It's always a pleasure to talk to Vietnam today.